Comparison Essay Quotes & Sayings

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with. — Banksy

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation. — Sebastian Faulks

For our Titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralise each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return at evening. — G.K. Chesterton

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others. — Ben Carson

All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections. — Dries Van Noten

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe. — Gerhard Schroder

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans. — Marian Keyes

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. — Magic Johnson

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. — Thomas Paine

Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth — Jessie Burton

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together. — Dallas Willard

If you're not learning, you're wasting your time. — Pharrell Williams

When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them. — Ilchi Lee